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After you reinstalled the Win95, you may have reinstall the applications which have the relationship with the DLL files that have been missing or damaged. Write down what dll file you missing, then goto seach for the relationship with it.
format the hard drive... run scandisk and defrag... you might have a bad spot on the hd...
then you will have to reinstall everything...
Also, run FDisk and repartition the HD... That will definately format the HD.
then you will have to reinstall everything...
Also, run FDisk and repartition the HD... That will definately format the HD.
One posibility could be that a memmory chip sparked. Even a surge protector doesn't do much good for those flickers. Try takeing out your memmory and putting it back in.
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Run scandisk with full surface scan enabled from the DOS prompt. Let it fix disk errors. You will probably need to reinstall win95. You probably do NOT need to reinstall other applications. If you reformat your disk you will loose your data. Do not repartition either, except as a last resort.
Regarding public's comments, I would like to make a rebuttal.
> You probably do NOT need to reinstall other applications
Actually, you do. When a program is installed, it makes registry entries
regarding where its dll files are stored, where the binary programs are,
system configurations, and miscellaneous paths. If you reinstall windows
without reinstalling the programs, you'll loose all of these registry entries.
Most program will not function properly since it doesn't know where its
components are. I've tried to do this before and ran into tons of problems.
> do not reformat or repartition, you'll lose data.
That is true. However, I think the problem has gone beyond simple
lost clusters, I mean, the computer in a sense 'got struck by lightning' :).
If running the scandisk doesn't solve the problem, then it's time to do
a clean reinstall. Of course, like I mentioned, save your important data.
> You probably do NOT need to reinstall other applications
Actually, you do. When a program is installed, it makes registry entries
regarding where its dll files are stored, where the binary programs are,
system configurations, and miscellaneous paths. If you reinstall windows
without reinstalling the programs, you'll loose all of these registry entries.
Most program will not function properly since it doesn't know where its
components are. I've tried to do this before and ran into tons of problems.
> do not reformat or repartition, you'll lose data.
That is true. However, I think the problem has gone beyond simple
lost clusters, I mean, the computer in a sense 'got struck by lightning' :).
If running the scandisk doesn't solve the problem, then it's time to do
a clean reinstall. Of course, like I mentioned, save your important data.
Reinstalling windows preserves registry setting. Before you reformat your disk try booting into safe mode. If you have backups try restoring the registry.
What probably happened during the event, is that some of the data held in memory was damaged. The power dropout was not long enough to cause a reset, and the damaged data was flushed to your disk. Yhe initial damage was probably very limited. Next time immediately run scandisk and correct any errors.
What probably happened during the event, is that some of the data held in memory was damaged. The power dropout was not long enough to cause a reset, and the damaged data was flushed to your disk. Yhe initial damage was probably very limited. Next time immediately run scandisk and correct any errors.